I’ve been excited for the weather to warm up so I could start enjoying iced tea.  RTDs are a huge part of the tea industry.  The convenience, potential health benefits, and delicious flavor are just a few of the reasons why ready-to-drink teas are so popular.  Unfortunately, Snapple’s Lemon wasn’t a good start for me this year.  I noticed when I popped the lid on the bottle that the scent wasn’t as lemony or pleasant as I anticipated.  It had a vague bitter/sweet scent to it.

With 23g of sugars per 8 fl oz, I was hoping for a more pleasing flavor.  I’m not tasting a natural black tea flavor nor am I picking up on a natural lemon flavor.  The flavors just do not blend well for me.  Lemon is obviously a strong flavor, so I was anticipating a mouth puckering sour blast.  Having said that, the odd flavored sweetener just didn’t taste very pleasing to me.  If the black tea pulled its weight against the sweetener, this would have been 100 times better.  I don’t think this one has been perfected yet.  I definitely recommend trying one of Snapple’s other bottled teas over this one.   If you want to give it a try and you like it  – let me know  – twitter.com/organictea.

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marTEA's blog was posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm and is filed under Black Tea, Ready-to-drink, Snapple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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